Background: Microarray technology is a powerful and widely accepted experimental technique in molecular biology that allows studying genome wide transcriptional responses. However...
Tung T. Nguyen, Richard R. Almon, Debra C. DuBois,...
Background: Genome-wide association studies of common diseases for common, low penetrance causal variants are underway. A proportion of these will alter protein sequences, the mos...
David F. Burke, Catherine L. Worth, Eva-Maria Prie...
Background: The Structural Descriptor Database (SDDB) is a web-based tool that predicts the function of proteins and functional site positions based on the structural properties o...
Juliana S. Bernardes, Jorge H. Fernandez, Ana Tere...
Background: T-cell epitopes that promiscuously bind to multiple alleles of a human leukocyte antigen (HLA) supertype are prime targets for development of vaccines and immunotherap...
Guanglan Zhang, Asif M. Khan, Kellathur N. Sriniva...
Background: Several entropy-based methods have been developed for scoring sequence conservation in protein multiple sequence alignments. High scoring amino acid positions may corr...